On David Foster Wallace.

Rupert Brooke and the chain of memory.

A memoir by the author of 'Jacob Have I Loved'.

A great metaphysical drama played out on the world's stage.

Giving a great American poet his due.

How Italo Calvino created a new genre of fiction.

In our solitary journeys to the interior we are not alone.

Rediscovering an idiosyncratic classic.

The poetry of Ted Kooser: plainspoken, not plain.

Formidable Hannah More.

Clutching at any appearance of control.

Here is living that we recognize.

When a poem is “too clear, you see nothing.”

And the year that changed his course.

Milton and his “epic to end all epics.”

Mrs. Humphry Ward’s “Robert Elsmere.”